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    Hermann Hesse
    “Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
    ― Hermann Hesse
    tags: writing
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
    ― Herman Hesse, Demian
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian
    tags: self
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    Hermann Hesse
    “If you need something desperately and find it, this is not an accident; your own craving and compulsion leads you to it.”
    ― Herman Hesse, Demian the Story of Emil Sinclairs Youth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: emotions, mercy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
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    Patrick Süskind
    “He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
    ― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    tags: alone, solitude
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    Patrick Süskind
    “Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.”
    ― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    tags: odor, odors, perfume, perfumery, scent, sense-of-smell
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    “I don’t like knowing people in the context of things. "Oh, that’s the person I work out with. That’s the person I’m in a book club with. That’s the person I did that show with." Because once the context ends, so does the friendship”
    ― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
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    Sayaka Murata
    “This society hasn't changed one bit. People who don't fit into the village are expelled: men who don't hunt, women who don't give birth to children. For all we talk about modern society and individualism, anyone who doesn't try to fit in can expect to be meddled with, coerced, and ultimately banished from the village.”
    ― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
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    Sayaka Murata
    “You eliminate the parts of your life that others find strange--maybe that's what everyone means when they say they want to 'cure" me.”
    ― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
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    Sayaka Murata
    “What I'm really scared of is believing the words society makes me speak are my own.”
    ― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings
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    Sayaka Murata
    “People can easily pass judgment on others when they’re protected by their own normality.”
    ― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings
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    Hermann Hesse
    “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian
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    Hermann Hesse
    “At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian
    tags: demian, hermann-hesse, ideals, war
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: choice, life, pain, pleasure
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    Max Brooks
    “Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”
    ― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    tags: human-nature, scepticism, weakness, zombie
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    Max Brooks
    “Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.”
    ― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    tags: falsehood, falsity, lies, max-brooks, truth, world-war-z
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: catatonia, coma, life
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    Patrick Ness
    “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: philosophy, wisdom
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    Patrick Ness
    “There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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    Patrick Ness
    “Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: a-monster-calls
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: books, stories
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    Tomasz Jedrowski
    “No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires, too.”
    ― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
    tags: dystopian, inspirational, making-a-difference
    185 likes



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